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Thanks! That Jefferson level comes from a from a letter to a friend, Abigail Adams, and he may have written at a different level there than in his speeches.

I was looking for a passage that was "pure" TJ, without others' ideas mixed in, as the Declaration of Independence no doubt had. And that was the best I could find easily.

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Janice Harayda
Janice Harayda

Written by Janice Harayda

Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.

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